Toward a Prehistory of the Na‐Dene, with a General Comment on Population Movements among Nomadic Hunters

Dumond, Don E.

doi:10.1525/aa.1969.71.5.02a00050

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“…wedge-shaped microblade core forms). While the archaeological data could support partial population replacement (Dumond 1969;Workman 1978) or diffusion (Clark 1994), the component distribution may reflect an effective adaptation to the boreal forest (probably through a combination of new technology and new settlement and subsistence strategies).…”

Section: Radiocarbon Chronologymentioning

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Radiocarbon Chronology of Central Alaska: Technological Continuity and Economic Change

Potter¹

2008

Radiocarbon

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ABSTRACT. This research presents the first comprehensive radiocarbon chronology for central Alaska, encompassing the late Pleistocene and Holocene archaeological record. Dated component distributions, comprised of 274 14 C dates from 160 components, indicate changing land-use strategies and subsistence economies, reflecting primarily lowland exploitation of bison, wapiti, and birds prior to 6000 cal BP, followed by increasing caribou and fish exploitation and use of upland areas. Microblade technology is conserved from the earliest components to ~1000 cal BP, and this continuity is not reflected in current cultural history sequences. Using component abundance as a proxy for population, initial colonization is associated with climate amelioration after ~14,000 cal BP, and population declines are associated with the Younger Dryas (13,000-12,000 cal BP) and initial establishment of widespread spruce forests (10,000-9000 cal BP).

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Radiocarbon Chronology of Central Alaska: Technological Continuity and Economic Change

Potter¹

2008

Radiocarbon

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Within and between race distances in population studies based on discrete traits of the human skull

Ossenberg

1976

American J Phys Anthropol

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A battery of 24 discrete cranial traits has been tested for its power to discriminate within- and between-race distances for the two principal North American indigenous populations: Indian (7 samples, N = 366) and Eskimo (7 samples, N = 451). One of the Indian samples, Dakota Sioux, has been split according to tribal subdivisions, the intra-tribal mean distance providing a parameter of very close relationship. In addition, two Negro samples provide a parameter of relationship phylogenetically remote from the Amerinds. Separate male-female analysis of the three largest samples indicates that distances for pooled samples are not seriously affected by the sex component. Within-race distances (C. A. B. Smith's Measure of Divergence, MD), are smaller than between-race at the .00001 level of significance (Mann-Whitney U test) for both Indian-Eskimo and Amerind-Negro comparisons. The features most powerful for Indian-Eskimo and Amerind-Negro comparisons. The features most powerful for Indian-Eskimo discrimination are revealed by their percent contribution to the mean of 49 MD's. The African heritage of American Blacks is reflected in a characteristic Negro pattern of trait frequencies different from the Amerind. This battery of features yields valid taxonomical information useful in conjunction with other physical data to reconstruct affinities of extinct populations.

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Human Cerumen Types in Mexico and New Guinea: a Humidity-related Polymorphism in “Mongoloid” Peoples

McCullough

Giles

1970

Nature

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Toward a Prehistory of the Na‐Dene, with a General Comment on Population Movements among Nomadic Hunters

Cited by 12 publications

References 17 publications

Radiocarbon Chronology of Central Alaska: Technological Continuity and Economic Change

Radiocarbon Chronology of Central Alaska: Technological Continuity and Economic Change

Within and between race distances in population studies based on discrete traits of the human skull

Human Cerumen Types in Mexico and New Guinea: a Humidity-related Polymorphism in “Mongoloid” Peoples

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